Famous Quotes & Sayings

S. Walker

Regardless of people's skepticism, I am pursuing what is (and has been) my dream for my own purposes. I appreciate the importance that so many others have placed on this effort, but I would still do it if I was alone and no one was watching.

Andrew Bacevich

Rejection would be a disaster for the U.S., but ratification alone will not end our problems in Iraq. Even if the constitution is ratified, the insurgents are not going to lay down their arms.

St. Teresa

Patient endurance attaineth to all things; who God possesseth in nothing is wanting; alone God sufficeth.

John Schneider

People have come to me for my opinion since 'October Baby.' But, hey, look, I'm an actor who is very fortunate to be in a movie that's making wonderful noise, and hopefully helping parents and children to be a little closer. Leave me alone. I'm not talking about politics. I'm just trying to have a conversation with my own kids.

Annie Dillard

People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subject inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.

Richard Doherty

Stern alone can make Sirius bigger than XM within a year.

Jamelle McMillan

Starting off I think there were doubts. Nobody outside of our school, maybe even our gym, thought we were going to be here, let alone in state, period.

Rachel Platten

'Stand By You' is about sticking by the person you love not only when things are easy, but being there for them during trials and letting them know they aren't alone.

Chris Heaney

Our goal is always to win state, so those goals will stay the same. Bringing him in here with 500 wins, that alone will help us greatly.

Kathleen Hohl

Regardless of the number of men we ordain to the priesthood each year, that number does not keep pace with the number of priests who retire from the ministry. As a result of fewer priests, the need for well-trained lay ministers is even more important.

Graeme Edge

(Rehearsal's) mostly to get the sound and lights up and knock a few cobwebs off.

Jon Peck

Our report can only reflect the numbers provided to the state. There are larger communities that reported fewer than some smaller communities.

Karen Hoem

Our overall goal this year was to make the playoffs. It's been a few years since we've been there.

Chris Shaw

Our question mark is in the back. We lost a few and our goalie. We are young in the back, but talented,

Ken Goldstein

Part of the real story here is that, through July, producers were still getting more output, with fewer labor hours put in. Productivity in the third quarter is probably going to be stronger than in the second quarter, confirming the idea that, while the stock market's not in good shape, the overall economy's not that bad.

Markus Persson

PC gaming has always been strong, and I see it surviving for quite a few more years. It will be around for at least as long as people use PCs.

Brad Radke

Our offense is much improved. We had a few guys who had down years last year. They'll help out more.

Chris Liddell

Our market share remains broadly where it was in the last few quarters, ... It's a monetization issue, and that is something we're going to have to reverse in the future.

Ray Staver

Our kids worked real hard in the second half on defense. I thought where they really hurt us was with screens. They are a very physical team. They play physical.

Peter Henning

or a very short sentence in a halfway house.

Charles Phillips

Oracle is halfway to Fusion. One year later, half the job is done and it's the toughest half.

Fran Drescher

Surgery is half the race, but you have to go for the follow-up or do yourself a major disservice.

Larry Harris

Starting off the second half of the season, we knew that this was going to be a big week for us and now we're 0-2.

Natasha Burton

Overall, 2005 saw higher numbers of shoppers on the High Street than in 2004, though this camouflages what was a challenging second half of the year for most retailers.

Donald Brownlee

Our capsule is half the size and one-fourth the mass of Genesis,

Brent Cox

Many African-American students are half American Indian as well.

Chris Landsea

Most seasons we are going to get a hurricane hit the U.S. and probably more than half the time we will have a major hurricane hitting the U.S. as well.

Wesley Moultrie

Our requirement would be that the tobacco firms in the U.S. maintain a high level of liquidity.

Andy Roberts

Our replacement technicians are highly trained and experienced mechanics.

Ron Fournier

Part of the problem is voters know relatively little about Romney. And some of what they know about him complicates his task: Romney has a history of flip-flopping on issues, he's extraordinarily wealthy, and he can be tone-deaf about what moves voters. He just doesn't seem comfortable in his skin.

Greg Aiello

Passions run high this time of year. The main thing is, Pittsburgh won the game. It could've been worse.

Ron Vos

Passing out flyers at a shopping mall or hoping somebody sees a poster doesn't get through to today's jaded, image-bombarded, media-savvy young consumer. Street marketing is practically an old strategy now, so the stakes are much higher when it comes to getting your message across.

Janice Miller

Part of Planet Digital's mission is to provide people with the highest standard of hands-on training possible,

Jim Keller

Our low power, high performance technology is very well suited to that.

Jacob Reitan

Our message is: Learn from history and end religious-based repression.

Tom Phillips

People I know in the administration have a very high regard for Nathan,

Jay Oxley

Our league will be tough. Telluride has been tearing it up down south.

Rodney Selph

Our league is so tough and we don't have a lot of nights where we could do this. It was a nice team effort.

Tony DiCecco

Our league is legit. You have to respect everybody.

Willie Randolph

Our pitching is like everyone else's in the league - very uncertain.

Doug Johnson

Our schedule hasn't been very good, and that's something I think the league has to look at and try to fix,

M. Wolfe

We noticed it, obviously. It opens up an NCAA berth for another league team.

Bill Shankly

When I've got nothing better to do, I look down the league table to see how Everton are getting along.

Bert Blyleven

I want to stay around longer than the pitchers who were at the top when I came into the big leagues. I don't want to be gone and have all the old guys - Seaver, Carlton, Ryan and Sutton - still pitching. I got rid of Palmer, now I want to outlast the rest of them.

Arsene Wenger

Nobody will finish above us in the league. It wouldn't surprise me if we were to go unbeaten for the whole of the season.

Becca Fitzpatrick

She likes you, she just doesn't understand you.

Bette Davis

If everybody likes you, you're pretty dull.

Bette Davis

If everyone likes you, you're not doing it right.

P. James

That sucks. It's not a surprise because it's a conservative town that likes its country. But we need some variety.

Marcus Aurelius

I think he needs our pity who likes none

Scott Parker

I think they really like him and he likes them.

Herman Edwards

He likes trying to make the big kick,

Kurt Busch

He likes to talk a lot. We like to race.

Andy Roddick

He likes to go for his shots at the lines, ... I'm going to have to try to take it to him.

Bethenny Frankel

Never eat while doing something else, because you won't get the satisfaction from your food and you'll be more likely to overeat.

Sarah Everson

Kris sat in the truck when I went inside. Like I said, he had nothing to do with this.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

No one is ever satisfied where he is.

Dick Bartholdi

That was as satisfying a win as we've ever had here.

Sherry Sturner

That works fine. That would satisfy everything we want.

Fred Solomon

That will go a long way towards satisfying some of our critics.

Kareem Carter

I won't be satisfied until I get a ring.

Ken Green

I think our team isn't satisfied with a section championship. We don't want our season to end yet.

Alan Cranston

I don't feel any need for redemption. I'm satisfied with what I did in the Senate. I don't look back. I look forward.

John Barrett

That's usually the consumer's way of saying they're not interested.

Scott Simms

I think this is what we expected, ultimately. We didn't do anything wrong -- that's what we've been saying all along.

Frank MacKay

It doesn't have any basis. It's like me saying they're Martians; it's silly.

Hal McManus

I'm so tired of saying 'box out' that I'm sick of it. I think I say 'box out' in my sleep.

Herman Edwards

I don't even know, ... I'm not trying to start a quarterback controversy and say who the quarterback is. Anything is possible. But I'm not saying we're switching, I'm not saying that.

M. Wolfe

I was like 'Why am I saying not guilty?' ... I thought I had to or something. It was the wrong decision.

Earl Hamner

I can't get used to saying the words, 'my biographer,'

Joe Wooden

Just like the old saying goes, "Vasser's boon-doggling again.

Richie Benaud

If it was me, I probably wouldn't be saying anything.

Rhett Bomar

I did have my struggles, and I'm not going to shy away from that. But as the year progressed, I got more comfortable.

Carine Roitfeld

Monsier Saint Laurent was pathologically shy, and he made the Saint Laurent woman in his own image. Like her, I am shy. And to protect myself, I adopted something of an androgynous look, just as his women did.

A. J. Liebling

I used to be shy about ordering a steak after I had eaten a steak sandwich, but I got used to it.

Colbie Caillat

I was always shy and had a huge fear of being onstage.

Dorothy Allison

I was born in 1949, and by the time I was 10, I figured out that my hope chest was not aimed in the same direction everybody else's was. And that life was going to be very, very complicated. And that I could either be provocative and declamatory, or shy, retiring and scared.

Don Rickles

I'm very shy so I became very outgoing to protect my shyness.

Ann Patchett

One must not be shy where language is concerned.

Andrew Clements

I almost tell him that I'd never be able to do something like that, just take out my instrument and begin playing on a street corner. But it feels to personal. Yes, I'm shy, but why bring it to his attention? I'm too shy to talk about how shy I am.

Ana Beatriz Barros

Americans are shy about the body. I have to remember that when I go there.

William Patterson

I stopped going to the conferences because most of (us) are all gone.

Jim Crace

I stopped being an engaged journalist and became a disengaged novelist.

David Hallberg

I stopped acting Romeo and just became Romeo.

Richard Greenberg

I thought if I stopped writing, ... the world would explode.

John Mellencamp

Hanging out is a waste of time. The only time I would hang out was when I was a kid, I would hang out in the streets. But once I started making records, I stopped hanging out.

Dave Wood

I feel that I got stopped (because I'm black),

G. H. Hardy

Basically, it's been wars that have stopped Mardi Gras.

Mike McBride

He was unbelievable. We couldn't have stopped him with 16 tanks.

Alastair Reynolds

One of the big breakthroughs I had as a writer was when I stopped agonising over every word.